masterThesis
Aspectos históricos e mudanças estruturais da informalidade no mercado de trabalho: um estudo comparado entre Brasil e Argentina
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2020-10-14Registro en:
SOUZA, Danyelle Mestre de. Aspectos históricos e mudanças estruturais da informalidade no mercado de trabalho: um estudo comparado entre Brasil e Argentina. 2020. 187f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Economia) - Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2020.
Autor
Souza, Danyelle Mestre de
Resumen
The dynamics of economic activity and the structural transformations that capitalism has
undergone throughout the twentieth century have affected and modified labor relations, with
strong consequences for workers. The changes resulting from processes such as economicfinancial globalization and the productive restructuring of the 1980s and 1990s had effects on
the economic structure and the world of work, especially for informal activities. In the cases of
Brazil and Argentina, added to these processes, specificities and structural characteristics
historically constituted of the economy and the labor market. The marks of exclusion and
economic and social heterogeneity conditioned and perpetuated informality as one of the main
challenges for these societies. In this context, the present study has the general objective of
analyzing the question of informality in these countries, through a conceptual perspective -
since the phenomenon is understood from different theoretical frameworks - and historical -
seeking to present the main transformations occurred in the context of the labor market
throughout its formation, until its most recent reconfiguration, resulting from changes promoted
by public policies adopted in the scope of labor relations and legislation. Initially, an attempt is
made to present the main theoretical approaches that define the concept of informality and,
subsequently, a historical rescue of the evolutionary trajectory of informality is made,
highlighting the main constitutive moments of this phenomenon in the economic sphere,
throughout the process of formation of the labor markets in Brazil and Argentina, from the roots
to its most recent reconfiguration. An effort was also made to characterize the phenomenon of
informality in the 21st century, in these two countries, based on information provided by official
household surveys, with the aim of quantifying and qualifying it from the perspective of its
relationship with the performance of economic activity and its consequences for workers
considered informal, in terms of weekly hours worked and income. The results do not suggest
structural changes in its characteristics that go back to the roots of the formation of the labor
market, both in Brazil and in Argentina, and corroborate that informality is perpetuated as a
phenomenon that negatively affects, with more intensity, the workers who need it most social
protection.